FMPC Chairman Holladay retires
FMPC members and Town staff recognized Holladay’s contributions during a reception honoring her before the FMPC meeting Thursday, June 15.
As she plans to move on, she said time with family was a major consideration for retirement.
“We have three grandchildren here, in Bearden and two in Atlanta,” Holladay said. “Whatever they’re doing, we try to go.”
That may be baseball, soccer, track, cross country, dance and gymnastics, she noted. “It’s a full slate.
“And, we help them get the kids places,” Holladay said.
”We do it anyway, but (getting to those places) will be easier, and I won’t have to miss that third Thursday (grandchildren’s activity).
Still, “I hate to leave the people,” she said. “There’s been some really, really good people that I’ve come in contact with — (former Vice Mayor) Dot (LaMarche) and I have become really good friends …Ed St. Clair … we’ve known Ed for a long, long time … and (Community Development director) Mark (Shipley).
“Dot is after my husband and me to volunteer at the (Farragut) Museum, which I’ll probably do,” Holladay added. “And, (do) nothing.
“Other than that, I’m glad to be doing something else.”
Having moved to Farragut in 1991 from South Carolina, she started volunteering in the late 1990s.
Before joining FMPC, she was involved with the Town in various volunteering capacities, such as the Town’s Personnel Committee.
“I went from that to the Planning Commission (in 2006),” Holladay recalled. She was appointed chairman in 2009 until her retirement last week.
While on FMPC, Holladay said the two people who inspired her most were the late Ralph McGill and the late Robert “Bob” Hill, a former FMPC chairman.
“Bob was a really good person, and I learned a lot from him, not just about Planning Commission but about a lot of the things that we’d done,” she said. “He was an interesting person.”
“He was chairman (of FMPC) since the start of it,” Holladay recalled. “He was an engineer in Oak Ridge. He had a good background for all of this.”
